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The title of the oon and fourtithe salm. To victorie, to the sones of Chore. As an hert desirith to the wellis of watris; so thou, God, my soule desirith to thee.

Thei seynge so wondriden; thei weren disturblid, thei weren mouyd togidere, tremblyng took hem.

As we herden, so we sien, in the citee of the Lord of vertues, in the citee of oure God; God hath foundid that citee with outen ende.

Aftir thi name, God, so thin heriyng is spred abrood in to the endis of erthe; thi riyt hond is ful of riytfulnesse.

Bifore that youre thornes vndurstoden the ramne; he swolewith hem so in ire, as lyuynge men.

The title of the eiyte and fiftithe salm. `In Jeroms translacioun thus, To the ouercomer, that thou lese not Dauid, meke and simple, `whanne Saul sente and kepte the hous, to slee hym. `In Ebreu thus, To the ouercomyng, leese thou not the semeli song of Dauid, and so forth. Mi God, delyuer thou me fro myn enemyes; and delyuer thou me fro hem that risen ayens me.

The title of the nyne and fiftithe salm. `In Ebreu thus, To victorie, on the witnessyng of roose, the swete song of Dauid, to teche, `whanne he fauyte ayens Aram of floodis, and Sirie of Soba; and Joab turnede ayen, and smoot Edom in the `valei of salt pittis, twelue thousynde. `In Jeroms translacioun thus, To the ouercomer for lilies, the witnessing of meke and parfit Dauid, to teche, whanne he fauyte ayens Sirie of Mesopotamye, and Soba, and so forth. God, thou hast put awei vs, and thou hast distried vs; thou were wrooth, and thou hast do merci to vs.

So Y schal seie salm to thi name in to the world of world; that Y yelde my vowis fro dai in to dai.

In a lond forsakun with out wei, and with out water, so Y apperide to thee in hooli; that Y schulde se thi vertu, and thi glorie.

So Y schal blesse thee in my lijf; and in thi name Y schal reise myn hondis.

So Y hadde mynde on thee on my bed, in morewtidis Y shal thenke of thee;

Thou hast visitid the lond, and hast greetli fillid it; thou hast multiplied to make it riche. The flood of God was fillid with watris; thou madist redi the mete of hem, for the makyng redi therof is so.

As smoke failith, faile thei; as wax fletith fro the face of fier, so perische synneris fro the face of God.

So thou schalt pursue hem in thi tempeste; and thou schalt disturble hem in thin ire.

Make thi riythond so knowun; and make men lerned in herte bi wisdom.

He bithouyte that we ben dust, a man is as hey; his dai schal flowre out so as a flour of the feeld.

Synneris faile fro the erthe, and wickid men faile, so that thei be not; my soule, blesse thou the Lord.

Lo! as the iyen of seruauntis; ben in the hondis of her lordis. As the iyen of the handmaide ben in the hondis of her ladi; so oure iyen ben to oure Lord God, til he haue mercy on vs.

As arowis ben in the hond of the miyti; so the sones of hem that ben schakun out.

Lo! so a man schal be blessid; that dredith the Lord.